I am absolutely honoured and grateful to be recognized as one of the top 50 thought leaders and influencers in 5G globally. It is truly a privilege to be included in the august company of some distinguished professionals who have made significant contributions to this rapidly evolving field. Thank you to Onalytica for the recognition, …
Six Solid Takeaways from India’s Union Budget 2023-24
The forward-looking Union Budget for 2023-24, presented by Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Finance Minister, keeps the focus on leveraging and accelerating technology adoption for enabling and empowering India’s techade as well as India@100. Enabling India-specific 5G Use Cases.Setting-up 100 5G labs in engineering institutions will provide the much-needed impetus to realize the new opportunities that 5G …
Talking Metaverse with Hugo Swart, Qualcomm
The convergence of rapid technological advances and the pandemic years have contributed to a quantum leap in interest in, and the development of the metaverse. Extended Reality (XR), an umbrella term that encapsulates Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), represents the gateway to metaverse, and to realize tremendous breakthrough transformations in …
Samsung may regain top spot in India’s smartphone market
Samsung looks to be on track to regain its top spot in the Indian smartphone market, after a strong performance in March. The South Korean electronics maker, which once replaced Nokia atop the smartphone market in India, has ceded that spot to China’s Xiaomi since the third quarter of 2020. Growing traction in offline retail …
Talking 5G and Cloud with Flex
5G will usher in higher bandwidth, broader coverage and lower latency. With 5G deployments accelerating across the world, and potentially soon in India, enterprises need to ensure their cloud and edge strategy, as well as evolve their secure and nimble data centre infrastructure. This, in turn, will enable them to manage the data explosion, while …
Hands-on with OPPO Air Glass at MWC 2022
At the MWC 2022, I got a hands-on opportunity to try out OPPO’s Air Glass, an AR product that OPPO terms as ‘assisted reality’ as against the full-blown augmented reality that most brands are working-on towards the metaverse. OPPO’s Air Glass was debuted at OPPO’s INNO Day event. The OPPO Air Glass is one of …
What tech themes will dominate MWC 2022
I am excited about attending the biggest global mobile tech industry show, the MWC 2022. The pandemic forced GSMA to cancel the MWC 2020, and curtail the MWC 2021 event. At a time when the world appreciates what ubiquitous connectivity entails, this first major in-person event in the post-pandemic world is one that we are …
How MAAMA performed in the latest quarter?
The quarterly results of tech companies are in. While bigshots like Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft kept the markets buoyant, Meta lost $230Bn in value in one day. Additionally, relatively smaller companies like PayPal and Spotify had to take a bath after a double-digit percentage drop in the market value. Apple’s privacy policy has had …
Xiaomi’s Quest for the Premium Market
For Indian consumers, the smartphone is an extension of their lifestyle. Indian consumers are value conscious, aspirational and demanding. They seek the best-in-class specs, and are, for the most part, brand agnostic, especially in the entry-level premium segment. For a smartphone brand to be considered premium, it would need to deliver on the hardware as …
Talking Digital Acceleration with Intel
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally forced a hard reset to the way we live and work. As organizations navigated their way through the pandemic, digital transformation continues to get significantly accelerated. For many organizations, digital transformation has implied rapidly scaling-up their digital journeys, and fostering change, either at the core of the enterprise, or at …